Green Gold - Medicine from the Primeval Forest

Grünes Gold - Ein Urwald voll Medizin

Being the first alpinists to ascend four six-thousand-meter mountains, the group continued its tour to the Ashaninka region in the Central Peruvian rain forest. Equipped with Western medicines, Klaus Keplinger, the medic of the group, made friends with a curandero, a healer who allowed him a glimpse into the Ashaninka art of healing. This was to become the beginning of an extensive exchange of knowledge. On his return to Europe, Keplinger verified the Ashaninka findings in collaboration with the universities of Munich, Graz, Vienna and Innsbruck.